Quotes about Yearning
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 1:3
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
- 2 Samuel 13:39
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
- 2 Samuel 23:15
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
- 1 Chronicles 11:17
who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
- Job 3:21
who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
- Job 3:21
I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
- Job 19:27
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Job 23:3
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalm 12:5
My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
- Psalm 27:8
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
- Psalm 38:9
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
- Psalm 42:1